Famous Deaths In December - 31

0192  On December - 31 death of lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31  

0335  On December - 31 death of st. Silvester, Pope  

0406  On this day in history godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle  

0439  Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56 on this day in history.  

1164  On this day in history death of margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)  

1194  Death of Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157) on December - 31.  

1297  On December - 31 death of humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)  

1302  Death of Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238) on December - 31.  

1382  Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan on December - 31.  

1384  On this day in history john Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies  

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1424  Death of Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader on December - 31.  

1460  On December - 31 death of edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1443)  

1510  Death of Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472) on December - 31.  

1535  Death of William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465) on this day in history.  

1568  Death of Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493) on this day in history.  

1575  Death of Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502) on December - 31.  

1583  On this day in history thomas Erastus, Switz, theologist, dies  

1610  On December - 31 death of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)  

1616  On December - 31 jacques Le Maire, pirate/explorer (Lemaire Strait), dies at 31  

1647  Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies on this day in history.  

1650  On this day in history death of dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)  

1652  On this day in history frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies  

1673  Death of Oliver St John, English statesman and judge on December - 31.  

1679  On December - 31 death of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)  

1691  Death of Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641) on this day in history.  

1719  On this day in history john Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73  

1733  Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44 on December - 31.  

1742  Death of Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661) on this day in history.  

1775  Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British on December - 31.  

1799  On December - 31 death of jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723)  

1802  Francis Lewis, Welsh/US merchant/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 89 on this day in history.  

1809  On December - 31 franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75  

1818  On December - 31 jean-Pierre Duport, composer, dies at 77  

1848  On December - 31 oliver Shaw, composer, dies at 69  

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0695  On this day in history birth of muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715)  

1378  On December - 31 birth of callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58)  

1378  On this day in history birth of pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)  

1491  On this day in history birth of jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)  

1514  Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica) was born on December - 31.  

1540  Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri) was born on December - 31.  

1572  Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617) was born on December - 31.  

1668  On this day in history birth of hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch medical/botanist